Archives - September 2012

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many people who work without living.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said "Parking Fine."

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Seeing wildlife is like seeing celebrities, only better.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.